This penetrating study is the first to synthesize the writings of ethnologists, historians, and anthropologists concerned with contemporary Arawakan cultures in South America and the adjacent Caribbean basin. Before they were largely decimated and dispersed by the effects of European colonization, Arawak-speaking peoples were the most widespread language family in Latin America and the Caribbean, and they were the first people Columbus encountered in the Americas. "Comparative Arawakan Histories" examines social structures, political hierarchies, rituals, religious movements, gender relations, and linguistic variations through historical perspectives to document sociocultural diversity across the diffused Arawakan diaspora.
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ADVANCE PRAISE "Unlike the Tupian and Cariban people of South America, little is known about the Arawakan diaspora as a cultural system. A tour de force of scholarship by individuals at the very cutting edge of their subdiscipline, Comparative Arawakan Histories provides a myriad of new insights into native life and breaks long-held stereotypes about relationships among language, culture, and ethos." -- Norman Whitten, professor of anthropology and director of the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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THE RELATIONSHIP between language and culture has been the subject of much speculation in Western philosophy and social sciences. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
male ritual societies, multiethnic confederacies, unmarked fertility cultism, topographic writing, rank endogamy, female initiation rituals, mythic center, transethnic identities, culture area concept, regional social organization, sacred flutes, lingua geral, mythical cycles, manioc beer, military confederations, cognate sets, childbirth rituals, mythic ancestors, shared innovations, linguistic exogamy, linguistic reconstruction, internal classification, plaza villages, preliminary reconstruction, fricative consonant Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South America, Andine Arawak, Upper Orinoco, Upper Rio Negro, Lower Urubamba, Middle Orinoco, French Guiana, Madre de Dios, Island Carib, Confederacy Groups, Upper Negro, Viveiros de Castro, Lesser Antilles, Sao Gabriel, Urubamba Piro, Lower Orinoco, Ribeiro de Sampaio, Cerro de la Sal, San Miguel, Jonathan Hill, Raymond Breton, Sabana de los Mojos, Upper Amazon, Upper Xingu, Isana River New!
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male ritual societies, multiethnic confederacies, unmarked fertility cultism, topographic writing, rank endogamy, female initiation rituals, mythic center, transethnic identities, culture area concept, regional social organization, sacred flutes, lingua geral, mythical cycles, manioc beer, military confederations, cognate sets, childbirth rituals, mythic ancestors, shared innovations, linguistic exogamy, linguistic reconstruction, internal classification, plaza villages, preliminary reconstruction, fricative consonant Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South America, Andine Arawak, Upper Orinoco, Upper Rio Negro, Lower Urubamba, Middle Orinoco, French Guiana, Madre de Dios, Island Carib, Confederacy Groups, Upper Negro, Viveiros de Castro, Lesser Antilles, Sao Gabriel, Urubamba Piro, Lower Orinoco, Ribeiro de Sampaio, Cerro de la Sal, San Miguel, Jonathan Hill, Raymond Breton, Sabana de los Mojos, Upper Amazon, Upper Xingu, Isana River New!
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